Rebecca Connor, LMFT

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Upcoming Retreats

Schedule of upcoming retreats held at The Christine Center in Willard, Wisconsin:

2009
COUPLES SKILLS RETREAT
A weekend retreat for couples at the Christine Center
Dates: Oct. 23 - 25, 2009, Friday evening to Sunday noon
Cost: $350 - $425 Per Person
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2010
Women's Retreat – September 17 - 19, 2010
Couples' Retreat – October 22 - 24, 2010

2011
Women's Retreat – September 23 - 25, 2011
Couples' Retreat – October 21 - 23, 2011

For more information, visit The Christine Center.

For directions, click here.

Retreat Logistics

Location
Retreats are generally located at The Christine Center.

Schedule
The weekend begins with a Friday night meeting from 7 to 9pm, then generally meets for a total of 6 hours over a morning and afternoon session on Saturday, and ends on Sunday at the 11am brunch after a 2-hour morning session

Lodging
Lodging is available on a first-pay basis.

Early payment secures your place in a modern cabin, rustic cabin, or modern room.

Cabins are located in the woods and tend to be roomy and private. Rustic cabins have no running water, but do have a porto-potty and have access to the Silo, a room with more than enough showers and toilets for retreatants.

Women will usually have a roommate but can pay an additional $100 for a private room.

Couples have private rooms or cabins together.

Cost
Retreat pricing ranges from $350 to $400 per person based on early or multiple registration and limited special discounts for those in need.

Cost includes all lodging, 3 meals on Saturday, and 2 meals on Sunday.

Friday meals are not included and require an additional fee of $10 to be paid directly to the center.

We keep our overhead low to provide an excellent value with minimal mark-up.

Massages
Massages are available directly through the massage therapists who live at the center. Call Mary at 715-267-4715 or Roberta at 715-267-6389 for scheduling.

It is important that you make sure not to schedule massages during scheduled session times.

Visit christinecenter.org for more information.

Retreats for Couples

This retreat is designed to help couples to explore old patterns from new perspectives of curiosity, inquiry, compassion and understanding.

We will practice ways to deepen your presence with yourself and with your loved one in a nonjudgmental and creative way.

Focus is on the couple over the group experience. Couples have opportunities for private guidance and coaching.

Couples will learn specific listening and expressing techniques to help one another to stay on the same side in times of conflict.

We will explore perspectives of how to jump out of old habitual systems power struggles and into developing new muscles of empathy and change.

You will have handouts for your cognitive mind and exercises and practice for putting concepts into practice.

The intention of these retreats are to find ways to stay connected and partnered through good times as well as times of conflict and anger, as well as to revitalize the love and connection that keeps you together.

Workshops are highly experiential and focus is on your work with your partner. Exercises are designed to guide self-reflection and empathy and you will be guided to practice and oscillating focus from your partner back to yourself . We will discuss concepts as a group, and then couples will practice exercises designed to ground the concepts into basic communication and connection.

Retreat Leaders

Rebecca leads the couples' retreat, and her husband Terry assists.

Rebecca and Terry have both attended long and short trainings in relationship and communication skills, as well as developmental and attachment, trainings.

Rebecca and Terry have worked together in holding workshops and retreats for couples since shortly after returning to the Twin Cities in 1999.

Quotes from Previous Retreats

"Words do not describe what I am walking away with. I am leaving with a new attitude."

"Excellent, very powerful. We highly recommend it."

"What a great experience. I could use a retreat like this every few months to remind myself how important my relationship and my wife are."

Retreats for Women

Each women's retreat has a particular theme and varies in focus and content. The intent of the women’s retreats is to deepen and expand the resource of our creative connections with ourselves and with one another.

Workshops are highly experiential and include exercises and rituals designed to guide participants toward setting genuine life intentions as well as exploring, clearing and updating patterns and themes that no longer serve us.

We actively practice aligning conscious intention to create authentic and lasting change, growth and evolution. Exercises are designed to guide us to set intentions that match up compassionately and accurately with where we truly are in our lives. Many of us run into blocks when we attempt to objectify and change ourselves through old painful and conditioned patterns of perfectionism rather than through compassion and creativity.

Retreats include self-reflective and witnessing activities such as vision quests, a creative project of some kind and other creative spiritually-based exercises.

Quotes from Previous Retreats

"I am going away with a much clearer vision of what I want to bring into and have in my life. Women working together is like no other experience."

"Absolutely full of wonder."

"Rebecca is amazing! This is the second retreat that I've attended and I will continue to come back."